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International standards

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Convention on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration of Marriages
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 19 (1992) on violence against women
Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 30 (2013) on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations
Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 35 (2017) on gender-based violence against women, updating general recommendation No. 19
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
Trafficking in persons, especially women and children Protocol to The Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking: E/2002/68/Add.1
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II)

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Annual thematic reports

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Latest thematic reports

Taking stock of the femicide watch initiative (2021)

Criminalization and prosecution of rape (2021)

Violence against women journalists (2020)

COVID-19 and domestic violence (2020)

25 years of the mandate (2019)

Mistreatment and violence against women in childbirth (2019)

Violence against women in politics (2018)

Online violence against women (2018)

International legal framework (2017)

Shelters and protection orders (2017)

Establishing a femicide watch (2016)

Issues in focus

Femicide watch initiative

Contact information

Special Rapporteur on violence against women
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8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneve 10,
Switzerland
Fax: + 41 22 917 9006
Email: vaw@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on Twitter: @UNSRVAW

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The Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

External links

Council of Europe

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Rapporteurship on the rights of women

The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights

Committee of Experts of the Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (MESECVI)